Edward Burns's Weblog

Monday August 01, 2005

In praise of the NeXTStep File chooser I recently switch to MacOS from Java Desktop System for my main development environment. Let me just say that the old NeXTStep style file chooser is one of the best things about the Mac. Now, there's nothing stopping GNOME for doing this ('cept maybe a patent?), and indeed I'm pretty sure there's a way to use a NeXTStep file chooser in GNU/Linux, but on the Java Desktop System it doesn't come that way out of the box. Maybe it should. The old CDE style chooser is a total pain compared to the horizontally scrolling chooser from NeXTStep. Indeed, I found a discussion about this issue in a gnome dev thread here. Wonder what ever became of it? (2005-08-01 08:11:31.0) Permalink Comments [1]